Twelve-strong panel

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They pointed out that twenty-four jurors had sat through the trials, had heard and seen all the evidence, and had found the teenagers guilty.

Web site, would conclude, as had the jurors, that justice had been served.

When Judge Burnett welcomed the potential jurors to his court, he began by asking if any of them would hesitate, due to moral or religious scruples, to impose the death penalty.

Vehemently and emotionally he reminded the jurors of what the police had concluded was the motive for the crime.

He asked the jurors to find Misskelley guilty of three counts of capital murder, a verdict that would allow the state of Arkansas to execute him.

The jurors tacked on an additional twenty years each, to be served consecutively, for the murders of the other two boys.

Price and Davidson worried that the odds of finding jurors who had not been influenced was not as great as they had allowed Damien to hope.

It was almost inconceivable that any twelve jurors could be seated who were not already well aware both that Jessie had confessed and that he had accused Damien and Jason of the murders.

While jurors were being selected to judge Damien and Jason, Lax methodically reviewed the now organized police file.

By the third day, as Damien and Jason were led into court, wearing the standard bulletproof vests, nine jurors had been selected.

He told reporters that as jurors were selected, their names would be made public, but he asked that they not be published.

Burnett explained that he was taking the further unusual step of having prospective jurors questioned privately in his chambers, rather than in open court.

Price wanted to question Morgan as a way of suggesting to jurors that the police case had been far from certain.

He argued that the jurors needed to know that Damien had been denied access to a lawyer.

Mostly, he wanted the jurors to hear him speak in his own behalf, before they adjourned to judge him.